The Women's Review of Books, July 1st, 1999
A Southern woman novelist recounts her college days and her work experiences in London, England, and Paris, France. She remembers how ostracized she felt then because of her southern background. She, however, discovered the group meant to embrace her when she started writing fiction. She realized that fiction writers belong to a marginal group who continues to search and write about the unique, authentic and enduring characteristics of human beings aside from those assigned to them by society.
My father is a virginian, and my mother a New Yorker. I grew up in East Tennessee, just across the V...
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